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A. D. GOLDREN, W. E. MURRAY 8N0. W. HUTSLER. COMBINATION DESK, MONEYDRAWER, AND DISTRIBUTER.

No. 538,236. Patented Apr. 30, 1895 A TTOHNE Y.

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AUGUSTUS D. COLDREN, W'ILLIAM E.;MURRAY, AND CHARLES IV. HUTSLER, OFHARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION DESK, MONEY-DRAWER, AND DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 538,286, dated April30, 1895.

Application filed February 18, 1895. Serial No. 538,816. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, AUGUSTUS D. CoL- DREN, WILLIAM E. MURRAY, andCHARLES W. HUTSLER, citizens of the United States,

residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Danphin and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n aCombination Desk, Money-Drawer, and Chewing-Gum Distributor, of whichthe fol- IO lowing is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

Ourinvention has relation to a device or apparatus adapted to be usedfor vending va-' rious articles, as for instance chewing gum,

r chocolate, candy, 856., when in the form of tablets or otherwise, saiddevice being also adapted to serve as a desk and as a receptacle ordrawer for money received from the sales of the described articles, andamong the 0h jects in view is to provide a device of the describedcharacter which is of a simple and inexpensive character and adaptedadmirably for the purposes in view, and our invention consists in thenovel construction, arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafterfully described, illustrated in the drawings and pointed out in theclaims.

In the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are oppoposite end views of our device.Fig. 3 is a 0 plan view with the lid or cover thrown up.

Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical longitudinal sections on lines x-x and 'y'-yrespectively of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view taken in aplane just above the money-drawer. 5 Fig. 7 is a detail view partly insection show ing thelevers or arms and connected parts.

In carrying out our invention we provide a casing 1, adapted to beplaced upon any suitable support as a table, and serves as a desk,

40 for which purpose said casing is provided with an inclined lid orcover 2, hinged at one end whereby said lid may be thrown upwardly topermit access to the interior mechanism of the device for any purpose.The casing is 5 also provided with acompartment 3 which is adapted tocontain various articles such as paper, ink, pencils, pens, &c., orbooks, and one end of the casing is divided ofi to form a compartment 4adapted to contain the articles to be yended. This compartment ispreferably divided into at least two portions by vertical partitions 5,6, so that one portion may contain one kind of candy, and the otherportion a different kind or chewing-gum.

The lower ends of the portions of the compartment communicate with aninclined compartment 7 which is adapted to guide the article pushed outof the compartment 4 in the manner presently described, onto the tray orbottom 8 from where it may be taken by the buyer.

In order that the articles may be pushed out of ,the compartment 4 sothat they may descend onto the tray we employ levers 9 arranged withinthe casing at opposite-sides and pivoted thereto as at 10, said leversprojecting through vertical slots 11 in the casing sufficiently fartoenable the shop-keeper or clerk to grasp the levers and swing themdownwardly.

To the lower end of each lever is pivotally connected one end of a rodor link 12, whose opposite end is pivotally connected to the lower endof an arm 13 whose opposite end is pivoted at 14 to a support 15 securedwithin the casing. To the lower end of said arm 13 is also connectedpivotally one end of a rod 16 which at its opposite end is connected toa horizontally-arranged slide 17 adapted to be projected'th'roughhorizontal slots 18 in the casing when the lovers 9 are swung out wardlyand downwardly as before mentioned, this movement of the slides beingaccomplished through the mechanism just described. Thus either of thelevers 9 may be 85 operated according to the particular kind of candy,&c., that is desired by the customer, and its respective slide becorrespondingly operated to push the article out of the compartment 4whence it descends through the compartment 7 and falls onto the tray.

In order that the article may be readily pushed out of the compartment 4we provide the upper face of each slide with a shoulder 19 which isadapted to engage behind the ar- 9 ticle and when the slideis operatedsaid shoulder will push the article ahead of it and thus accomplish thedesired object.

To enable the compartment 4 or its divisions to be replenished at anytime, we provide :00

a lid or cover removably secured to the casing over the upper ends ofthe said compartment by means of screws 21.

To hold the levers 9 in their normal retracted position and to returnthem into said position after the article has been pushedout of itscompartment we employ spring arms 23, whose lower ends are secured tothe casing and whose upper ends are hooked or otherwise attached to armsor rods 2% whose opposite ends are hooked to the levers 9.

indicates a drawer adapted to contain money the said drawer beingadapted to slide within the casing and be engaged normally by a shoulder20 on a lever or latch 27 pivoted at 28 and one end of which lever liesnormally beneath and is adapted to be depressed by a lever 30 which isprovided at one end with a loop or eye 31 receiving a hook 32 011 thelever 27, and the opposite end of which lever 30 is hung from a loop oreye 33 carried by a transverse piece 3% arranged within the casing.

For the purpose of opening the drawer 25 to deposit money therein ortake money therefrom, we employ a horizontally-arranged rod 36 whichextends loosely through an opening in the end of the casing and ispivotallyconnccted at the opposite end with an arm 37 which normallyrests upon the lever 30, and is pivoted at 38 to a piece 39 secured tothe piece 34:.

The lever 30 is normally held in a horizontal or nearly horizontalposition by means of a spring arm -10 secured to the piece 34- at itsrear end. \Vhen the rod 36 is drawn outwardly the arm 37 is partiallyturned to cause the front end of the lever 30 to be depressed whichtherefore causes the lever 27 to be rocked snfficiently to cause itsshoulder 26 to release the drawer 25, which impelled by the spring arm41 bearing against its rear end is slid outwardly to give access to it.

In order that the money drawer may be operated as describedthat is tosay, automatically opened whenever a lever 9 is operated to push anarticle out of the compartment therefor, so that the money received fromthe sale of the article may be deposited in said drawer, we providelevers 42 similar to the lever 30 and arranged in a similar manner, thatis to say, the said levers 42 are pivoted or hung as at 43 from thepiece 3t by means of eyes or loops 44. 45 are arms secured to the leversor arms 13 and bearing upon the upper faces of the levers 42, whichlatter normally bear upon one end of levers 45 whose opposite ends arepivoted at 46 to the front of the casing. The said levers 45 are alsohooked intermediate their ends to the lever 30. It will thus be seenthat when one or the other of the levers 9 is operated for the purposeof permitting an article to be deposited upon the tray, the rocking ofthe arm 13 causes the arm 45 secured thereto to depress one end of thelever 4E2 which thus rocks the lever 45' and thus draws down one end oflever 27 and raises its opposite shouldered end which thus releases thedrawer 25 and allows its impelling spring arm to slide it outwardly.

Spring arms 48 similar to the spring arm td serve to return the levers42 and cooperating parts into their normal positions.

It is desirable that whenever the money drawer is operated an alarmshould be sounded thus preventing unlawful opening of the drawer withoutnotice being given of such opening, and for the described purpose weemploy a V-shaped lever 49 pivoted at 50 to the bottom of the casing,said lever being arranged horizontally and adapted to be struck by thedrawer 25 when the latter is pushed in and said lever is acted upon by aspring arm 52 attached at one end to the casing, said spring tending toforce the lever 49 and with it the drawer 25 outwardly. The lever 49carries a dog or piece 53 pivoted to the lever, one end as 54 of saiddog being heavier than the other so as to throw the end 55 normallyupward in a position to engage with one end of a bent; lever or clapperarm 56 secured at one end to the casing. In the normal position of theparts, that is to say, when the drawer is within the casing, the dog isin engagement at its end 55 with the end of the clapper arm 56 and whenthe drawer is released from its engagement with the lever 27 either bythe operation of one of the levers 9 or the outward movement of the rod36, the stress of the spring arms 41 and 52 will slide the draweroutwardly and move the lever 49 to cause the end 55 of the dog to freethe end of the clapper arm which [lies back and strikes the bell 58 andthus sounds the alarm. When the drawer is again pushed in it moves thelever l9 to cause the dog to first tilt to allow its end 55 to passbeneath the end of the clapper arm, and then the heavier end 54: of saiddog will throw the end 55 upwardly to cause it to again engage the saidclapper arm as before explained; and in such inward movement of thedrawer the same will be again engaged by the shoulder on the lever 27and held until again released in the manner heretofore set forth.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a casing having a compartment for the articlesto be vended, of a drawer normally held retracted within the casing, andmeans for simultaneously removing the articles from said compartment andmoving the drawer outwardly from the easing, as specified.

2. The combination with a casing having a compartment for the articlesto be vended, of a drawer normally held retracted within the casing, analarm carried by said casing, and means for simultaneously removing thearticles from the said compartment, moving the drawer outwardly from thecasing and sounding the alarm,- as specified.

3. The combination with a casing having a compartment for the articlesto be vended, and also a discharge chute or outlet commu- IIO casing,and connecting means between said latch and the lever whereby theoperation of the latter effectsa simultaneous movement of the slide andthe disengagement of the latch from the drawer, as and for the purposespecified.

4. The combination with a casing having a compartment for the articlesto be vended,

and also a discharge chute or outlet communicating with saidcompartment, of a horizontally-reciprocating slide adapted to traversesaid compartment and feed the articles therefrom, a lever pivoted to thecasing and projecting through an opening therein, connecting meansbetween said lever and the slide, a

spring-actuated drawer, a latch adapted to engage said drawer when thelatter is within the casing, connecting means between said latch and thelever whereby the operation of the latter effects a simultaneousmovement of the slide and the disengagement of the latch from ver, aclapper arm with which said dog is adapted to normally engage when thelever is moved rearwardly by the inward movement of the drawer, said dogbeing also adapted to release said clapper arm when the drawer is movedoutwardly, and an alarm adapted to be sounded by said arm when released,as and for the purpose specified.

6. The combination with a casing having a compartment for the articlesto be vended, and also a discharge chute or outlet communicating withsaid compartment, of a horizontally-reciprocating slide adapted totraverse said compartment and feed the articles therefrom, a leverpivoted to the casing and projecting through an opening therein, avertical rock arm, links or rods connecting the lever with the same andwith the slide, a projection or arm carried by the rock-arm, a secondarm pivoted at one end and adapted to be depressed at its opposite endby the said projection, a third arm pivoted at one end and adapted to bedepressed at its opposite end by the said second arm, a spring-actuatedsliding drawer, a pivoted latch adapted to engage at one end with thedrawer when the latter is pushed in and a connection between theopposite end of said latch and the said third arm, all as and for thepurpose specified.

In testimony whereof we have affixed our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

AUGUSTUS D. COLDREN. WILLIAM E. MURRAY. CHARLES 1V. HUTSLER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J BELL, HARRY W. SOLOMON.

